Simultaneous EEG-fMRI during a working memory task: Modulations in low and high frequency bands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Michels, Lars ^a   Bucher, Kerstin ^b   Lüchinger, Rafael ^c   Klaver, Peter ^b,c   Martin, Ernst ^b,c   Jeanmonod, Daniel ^a,c   Brandeis, Daniel ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956414634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010298     Document Type: Article

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